FRONTIER is an example of a computer network. Each entry in the
database is a computer, as it does something even if this us only to
add a copy of itself to the output.

PROGRAM = Network of Routines (often the network is a tree, but
this is

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not necessary, since a superposition of trees can make a fully
connected graph).

THEOLOGY - RELIGION are duals.

THEOLOGY is the theory (ie abstract but complex) of RELIGION.
RELIGION is the practice of THEOLOGY. How do we represent this is
dual spaces. They do? (do not?) commute.

TR - RT - 1 or 0.

What do we say to the uni, who have finally found and posted their
last letter to me. Personal act of charity (HECS relief) but an
institutional admission of fault. The question of my competence . . .
cannot be answered unless we answer a prior question. And that is
whether the department is open to the full canvassing of all the
aspects of my question Is the Universe divine?, or is it constrained
by its institutional fidelity to the church and the anathemas

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of Pius IX. If in fact the department is fettered in its
investigations by the requirements of the owners of the university,
then the university is not a university in the true sense of the
word, but rather an indoctrination center for a sect. Since the
university accepts public funds for its operations this should not be
allowed to continue because sectarianism is a destroyer of political
harmony.

If it is decided that the research project can be accommodated in
the department, then perhaps my essays and proposals can be seen as
an ansatz in the direction I propose and be judged on their merit
rather than their conformity to the doctrine they oppose.

The Bible is simply a human document, written by some consummate
spin doctors working for and against the establishment and often
changing sides. It is brilliant literatures [refined in the oral
domain] but not something to base your life on. The story of a grumpy
old god who

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had his son murdered to appease himself because he was upset with
some of his toys. Put alongside all the other murder and mayhem
wrought in the name of goodness, it seems a very inappropriate
foundation for a religion of peace. And in fact it has underpinned a
religion of conquest and violence which has been on the rampage
tearing the bodies of its opponents apart with swords, guns and bombs
for the last 1700 years, since it gained imperial power. At this
moment Christians are once again bombing innocent people merely
because they are identified as being faithful to the enemy.

How the meaning can slide along a word to get from one point to
another in the flow of text and ideas.

THEOLOGY = CRITICISM OF ACTION/OUTPUT, ie CRITICISM.

The market criticizes output and so is theological in its effect.
But is the criticism desirable? A question for metacriticism, and so
on.

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Bed.

Monday 22 October 2001

Tuesday 23 October 2001

Wednesday 24 October 2001

Thursday 25 October 2001

The alphabet for interatomic conversation is all the number states
of the quantum harmonic oscillator (photons).

I believe that I have made it clear that I have conscientious
objection to large areas of Roman Catholic doctrine, and could no
more suggest to people that they use these suspect areas
(particularly the underestimation of nature and the undercurrent of
retribution) as a guide to living that I could recommend the
construction of a building designed with obviously false data about
the properties of the material specified.

The question is: can there exist a person capable of successfully
completing the MA course while expressing opposition to the central
dogma of Catholicism, that god and the Universe are separate
entities, and that while god can exist without the

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Universe, the Universe cannot exist without god, given the current
constitution, rules and policies of the ACU.

Until this question is answered, I feel that discussions of the
grading of my work at the ACU are futile.

I repeat my contention: I feel that Lonergan's attempt (which
follows a historical line at least 2500 years long) fails. I agree
with his contention that the divinity be fully intelligible but I
disagree with his datum, that the world accessible to science
contains empirical residue, that is data without intelligible
meaning. Lonergan's failure has two roots: the first is to mistake
theory for reality when judging reality; and the second is to have
taken no effective notice of quantum mechanics as the most effective
description of nature. He can be excused for this latter omission,
since he appears to have worked in an environment devoid of quantum
mechanical culture and he wrote before the recent golden age of
quantum mechanical theory and experiment.

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Of course I must get my story together too, and this demands the
quantum rewrite of Lonergan to show by formalization that INSIGHT =
MEASUREMENT.

Nature 413:400 27 September 2001

'An entangled state of a system consisting of two (or more)
subsystems cannot be described as a product of the quantum states of
the two subsystems.'

get EPR

461: 'What is it that human beings ultimately depend upon? We
depend upon our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to
communicate . . . without losing the objective or unambiguous character
[of what we say]' Neils Bohr.

Friday 26 October 2001

'The object of this book is to present the new quantum mechanics
in a unified representation which, so far as is possible and useful,
is mathematically rigorous.

Transformation theory: Hilbert Space; Hermitean operators.

Theory goes beyond classical limits to unbounded operators.

viii 'as a rule calculations should be performed with the
operators themselves (which represent physical quantities) and not
with the matrices, which, after the introduction of a (special and
arbitrary) coordinate system in Hilbert space, result from them. This
'coordinate free' ie invariant method, with its strongly geometric
language, possesses notable formal advantages.'

Newton: calculus. QM: infinitely many

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variables.

Despair: Nothing works, it is all wrong, my life is wasted, I will
never receive any tangible benefit for all the world I have put into
this, and so on. Working on an article for somewhere.: quantum
information theory and theology, which seems to have such a good
beginning and is not going anywhere. But press on, since experience
shows that it is darkest before the dawn, and 48 hours of work (till
Monday morning when I have to go back to real work) will yield
something of value, at least to send to . . . .

Saturday 27 October 2001

Archimedes insight yielded a procedure based on a principle
(Archimedes Principle) for assaying Hiero's crown.

For me, often, dope cures depression (which may be a by-product of
lack of dope) by opening my mind to my consciousness.

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Stress - energy: problems become more pressing as the spacetime
confinement of options becomes tighter. One must change the voice
from trenchant to insightful.

My institution is probing the behaviour of you institution using
as an instance of institutional interaction the human being called
jhn.

Politics is the process of developing institutions to achieve
certain ends in human life,

Union of Hilbert spaces = product of Hilbert spaces. Explain this
succinctly. Here we go deeper into the structure of both natural
language and Hilbert space.

Theorems cut spaces down to size by showing us 'wormholes' that
connect one part to anther.

It is time for the human Universe to enter an inflationary phase
of spatial flattening.

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Further reading

Books

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von Neumann, John, and Robert T Beyer (translator), Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press 1983 Jacket: '. . . a revolutionary book that caused a sea change in theoretical physics. . . . JvN begins by presenting the theory of Hermitean operators and Hilbert spaces. These provide the framework for transformation theory, which JvN regards as the definitive form of quantum mechanics. . . . Regarded as a tour de force at the time of its publication, this book is still indispensible for those interested in the fundamental issues of quantum mechanics.'Amazonback

Papers

Lim, May, Richard Metzier, Yaneer Bar-Yam, "Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence", Science, 317, 5844, 14 September 2007, page 1540-1544. 'We identify a process of global pattern formation that causes regions to differentiate by culture. Violence arises at boundaries between regions that are not sufficiently well defined. We model cultural differentiation as a separation of groups whose members prefer similar neighbours, with a characteristic group size at which violence occurs. Application of this model to the area of the former Yugoslavia and to India accurately predicts the locations of reported conflict. This model also points to improved mixing or boundary clarification as mechanisms for promoting peace.' . back

Liu, Jianquo, et al, "Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Sysems", Science, 317, 5844, 14 September 2007, page 1513-1516. 'Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and comlex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organisational unity. They also exhibit nonlinear dynamics with thresholds, reciprocal feedback loops, time lags, resilience, heterogeneity, and surprises. Furthermore, past coulings have legacy effects on present conditions and future possibilities.'. back

Links

William Harvey - Wikipedia William Harvey - Wikipedia, the fre encyclopedia'William Harvey (April 1, 1578 - June 3, 1657) was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. Although Spanish physician Michael Servetus discovered circulation a quarter century before Harvey was born, all but three copies of his manuscript Christianismi Restitutio were destroyed and as a result, the secrets of circulation were lost until Harvey rediscovered them nearly a century later.; back